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[edit] Barbary Macaque
Please leave off the trivia. The article is about the species, not about the particular group, although there's some discussion about the group. If you think an officer in charge of watching the monkeys is noteworthy, make another article about the group of monkeys. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gibraltar-Fauna-Stub
Hi - a stub template or category which you created has been nominated for deletion or renaming at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type, which was not proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, does not meet the standard requirements for a stub type, either through being incorrectly named, ambiguously scoped, or through failure to meet standards relating to the current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 02:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hi again - you wrote:Hi, I am fairly new to creating articles on Wikipedia. Could you please help me on understanding why this stub is up for deletion and what I can do to make it right. Thanks for your time.
- Well, first, stub types are generally only created when there are enough stubs for them to be useful to editors. Generally this is when there are about 50-60 stubs (unless there's a specific WikiProject on that topic, when the threshold drops). Occasionally, special "upmerged" templates (feeding into a larger stub category, like Gibraltar-geo-stub) are made, but they are generally only used in the case of geo-stubs, bio-stubs, and any case where a stub type is getting close to the threshold needed for splitting. In the case of fauna from Gibraltar, there is currently only one stub article listed in Cat:Gibraltar stubs, so it's certainly not close to reaching threshold (and there are only about 50 Gibraltar stubs in total, so that category isn't in need of splitting).
- Also, there are specific ways that stub types are split and specific naming conventions used for the templates. In the case of fauna, it is split into stub types by the type of fauna, not the location, since it's far more likely that an editor knowing about fish, say, will know about fish worldwide than about the birds and fish of a specific country. Also, since animals don't tend to obey national boundaries, splitting by country isn't necessarily a good way of splitting fauna stubs anyway. As far as the naming conventions are concerned, all stub templates use lower case letters except for proper nouns, so even if a stub template for fauna from Gibraltar was a reasonable idea, it would be named Gibraltar-fauna-stub, not Gibraltar-Fauna-Stub.
- As far as "making it right", basically if you think this stub type is still worth having, you can argue a case for it at WP:SFD - if not, then you could always agree to its deletion, in which case, since you are the creator of the template, it can be deleted more quickly than going through the normal debating process.
- Hope that all makes sense - and sorry about the nomination for deletion! Grutness...wha? 23:37, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi again - yes, it's only the template that's proposed for deletion. SFD is only involved in deleting templates and categories, not the articles themselves. Any articles marked with it will simply be changed so that they are marked with {{gibraltar-stub}} or whatever is the most approriate other stub type. Grutness...wha? 23:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
- Since the page's creator agred to deletion, it could be speedily deleted, so I did :) Grutness...wha? 23:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!
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[edit] WikiProject Gibraltar
Hi Gibmetal77, welcome to Wikipedia. :-)
Sorry to see you quit Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar. You're welcome to rejoin at any time if you wish. In the meantime, you may find this new public watchlist to be of use in monitoring changes to the Gibraltar-related articles (see [1] to view it in action). -- ChrisO 00:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Linguisticks
The article Linguisticks has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.
Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki 17:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Per your request, I copied the content of the deleted article to your userspace at User:Gibmetal77/Linguisticks. I should caution you that if you repost the article, it is likely to be deleted again unless you can show the company's notability (see WP:CORP) through independent, reliable sources (see WP:ATTRIBUTION). NawlinWiki 19:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
